“You, are a rebellious son who abandoned his father. You are a cruel brigand who murdered his lord. How can Heaven and Earth put up with you for long? And unless you die soon, how can you face the sight of men?”

what happened to other Han loyalist after Dong Zhuo's rule? i remember Huangfu Song & the gang was serving him, what happened to them later ? died from Li jue & guo si's fight?

"There are five possible operations for any army. If you can fight, fight; if you cannot fight, defend; if you cannot defend, flee; if you cannot flee, surrender; if you cannot surrender, die. " Sima Yi

Wang Lang really wasn't a bad guy. No reason to curse him. As for expanding Cao Rui's harem, that might have been a more practical move than anything; all of Cao Rui's children died young, and in fact most of them died before age 5. Wang Lang's suggestion was most likely an attempt to have Cao Rui produce a child that would live longer.

Hyper90 wrote:i remember Huangfu Song & the gang was serving him, what happened to them later ? died from Li jue & guo si's fight?

Huangfu Song died a natural death in 195. Zhu Jun did as well. Lu Zhi died in 192 most likely before Li Jue and Guo Si seized power. Many Han generals died escorting Emperor Xian out of Chang'an. A few ministers remained with the Court when Wei took control. Yang Biao is perhaps the luckiest, living to see the ripe old age of 83.

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Qu Hui wrote:Yang Biao is perhaps the luckiest, living to see the ripe old age of 83.

nothing much info about him, he got banished by cao cao? so i assume he got banished after xian was under cao cao's control. what happened to his later life?

"There are five possible operations for any army. If you can fight, fight; if you cannot fight, defend; if you cannot defend, flee; if you cannot flee, surrender; if you cannot surrender, die. " Sima Yi

He remained on his estates, pretending to have rheumatism and rejected service under Cao Pi.

“You, are a rebellious son who abandoned his father. You are a cruel brigand who murdered his lord. How can Heaven and Earth put up with you for long? And unless you die soon, how can you face the sight of men?”

Considering that Dong Zhuo even poisoned an empress thinking that she could be a danger to him, why did he let so many important people live? Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, Lu Zhi and the Yang family were all powerful and influential at a time. Yet he allowed them to live, in which they could have been considerable threats, given their talent in certain fields.

I've a brave warrior in my army. Shen Ai is his name, and he can slay this Hua Xiong.

Wei has no more famous commanders, Shen Ai takes lead of the vanguard!

Whatever one of the many reasons he had for killing her was behind the Empresses death, he could do so without losing popularity. Or would have done in other circumstances and it was probably needed to secure Dong's new position.

Killing gentry would have been very unpopular and against what he tried to do, or at least tried to do early on. Dong wanted to recruit the great men (both in talent and family prestige) of the day to the administration, to stop the avoidance of service that some people had done in the past. He and his officers made considerable efforts to recruit with mixed success, killing them would have gone against Dong's early reforms. He obvoiusly would have hoped those he recruited would be loyal.

Dong did try to kill Huangfu Song though

“You, are a rebellious son who abandoned his father. You are a cruel brigand who murdered his lord. How can Heaven and Earth put up with you for long? And unless you die soon, how can you face the sight of men?”

Yuan Shao walked out after He Jin's death and Dong Zhuo's arrival. Was he, at the time of course, a Han loyalist, seeing as he refused to serve Zhuo, or was he just a man who was taken in by He Jin's charisma? Setting aside his later choices of course, was there even a slight chance that the man was loyal, considering how long his family was entrenched in the Han dynasty?

I've a brave warrior in my army. Shen Ai is his name, and he can slay this Hua Xiong.

Wei has no more famous commanders, Shen Ai takes lead of the vanguard!

Well he left his time as knight-errant and helper of escapes for He Jin but that may also have been due to pressure from Yuan Wei. Yuan Shao doesn't strike me as one of the more loyal officers of the Han, could say the same for a lot of the Yuan family mind, but I wouldn't rule out loyalty as an early motive.

“You, are a rebellious son who abandoned his father. You are a cruel brigand who murdered his lord. How can Heaven and Earth put up with you for long? And unless you die soon, how can you face the sight of men?”